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Playing around with Google Earth, I'm trying to find Fujifilm's "building 38" (where they produce film). I found one massive facility of theirs. Does this look like where they might produce film?

Here are the Google earth coordinates.

35°16'07.31" N 139°09'48.86" E
 
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This facility is even more massive. Sadly, street view doesnt let you get close to view any signs.

35°14'00.07" N 138°35'28.46" E
 
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One more. This plant has a water treatment facility. Not sure if film needs this.

35°18'45.75" N 139°06'36.27" E
 

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Kodak Park is huge too and there were several other facilities here as well. Only a tiny fraction was devoted to coating. Other buildings made support, chemicals and did the packaging.

And now, other companies are using many of the remaining buildings.

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Kodak Park is huge too and there were several other facilities here as well. Only a tiny fraction was devoted to coating. Other buildings made support, chemicals and did the packaging.

And now, other companies are using many of the remaining buildings.

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Kodak Park has been in the news so much that we all know how large it was and still is. Everyone here has heard about "Building 38". With Fuji it's the exact opposite. I've never heard of or seen anywhere they have produced film so have always been curious about their facilities. Today I figured I'd search around with Google Earth as it notates many different Fujifilm locations. With your help I might have found the place, although further confirmation is necessary.
 

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They will still be coating Instax...
 

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PE,

Kodak Park has been in the news so much that we all know how large it was and still is. Everyone here has heard about "Building 38". With Fuji it's the exact opposite. I've never heard of or seen anywhere they have produced film so have always been curious about their facilities. Today I figured I'd search around with Google Earth as it notates many different Fujifilm locations. With your help I might have found the place, although further confirmation is necessary.

That is something that I pointed out on one of the Kodak/Fuji discussions with the topic of Building's 38 vastness.
Oas of Fuji we don't know how/were the still film is made, the scale of the facilities et al. Of Kodak there are numerous testimonials of people who were there but none of Fuji.

I see Instax must be churned out really much given its success. Pressumably, Fuji's facilities are able to coat in a smaller scale. Though given the demise of products such as Provia 400X, The 160 speed colour negative (still produced? not carried to EU?) I don't know if that premise holds. They do have the superias (1600 especially niche, but the equivalent Natura is off).

Very curious was the single run of Pro400 220 recently in Japan. Supposedly the last 220 around as Kodak also quit 220.
 

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Instant film of any sort takes a huge coating facility. One part for receiver support, one part for film and one part to assemble the two parts into a film pack. This is about 3x the floor area of say sheet or roll film.

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Instant film of any sort takes a huge coating facility. One part for receiver support, one part for film and one part to assemble the two parts into a film pack. This is about 3x the floor area of say sheet or roll film.

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Of course as Impossible Project demonstrates those steps don't have to be in the same location.
 

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No, they do not, and of course Fuji has announced an increase in production of these products. So, where is it? IDK. And I have lost contact with all of my friends and associates in Japan.

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